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Sophia Blackmore (18 October 1857 – 3 July 1945) was an Australian Christian missionary. [1] She founded the Fairfield Methodist Schools , and also Methodist Girls' School [ 2 ] in Singapore . She was the first unmarried woman missionary sent by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Singapore . [ 3 ]
Sophia Blackmore, a 32-year-old Australian missionary from the Methodist Women's Foreign Missionary Society, [4] had just established her first school in Singapore. Meanwhile, several influential Chinese families were persuading her to teach their daughters. [5] [6] A widow later offered Blackmore her home along Cross Street for teaching. [1]
Methodist Girls' School (MGS) is an independent Methodist girls' school in Bukit Timah, Singapore, founded in 1887 by Australian missionary Sophia Blackmore [citation needed]. It offers a six-year primary education in its primary school section and a four-year secondary education in its secondary school section.
Founded as a church in 1894, Kampong Kapor Methodist Church began its activities in November 1890, in the lower room of the Deaconess Home. Upon request, Miss Sophia Blackmore, [5] a missionary to Singapore (and also the founder of the Fairfield Methodist Schools and the Methodist Girls' School) [6] [7] started a Sunday Malay language worship service.
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Miss Sophia Blackmore (1857-1945) was the first woman missionary sent by the Methodist Women's Foreign Missionary Society to work in Singapore. She help found the Methodist Girls' School in August 1887 [6] and the Fairfield Methodist Schools in 1888.
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